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Re: April 1st / PLEASE don't kill me.....
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Date: 
Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:20:03 GMT
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Nice job Ben! I will admit that I was really hoping it was true, maybe
someday it will be. One can only hope.

jt

Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote in message ...

Hi Folks,

I was on a two days vacation and came back just an hour ago. I was
strongly surprised about the amount of posts concerning the April fools • joke.

Now it has to be said: of course it was an April fools joke and I fear for • my
life now, because I have to declare:

I was the mastermind of this hoax. And I feel a mix of exitement, fear and
proud now.

I hope nobody is really to angry against me: I started this thing to fool • some
of my germans friends (and indeed I was in hope to fool some of the lugnet
readers too.)

But what happened here was succeeding all my imaginations by far. And I'm • glad,
that enough people had their doubts about the faked catalogue: I would have
felt much worse if anybody had started to sell of his "old" stuff because • of
the new sets, which will never come like this of course.....

One good thing I can see in all this is the following: TLC will surely
have been informed of the faked train program and they can see how much
exitement it caused under the train heads. And while reading all the posts • of
the thread, they could filter a lot of information, wishes and requirements • out
of them.

So this hoax might help us to get some better train stuff in future. That's • at
least my hope.

I fear I will get a lot of response on this post now. I will try to answer • all
questions, but I have a job and my english is not the best. So I beg your
pardon, if I'm not able to give satisfieing answers to all requests
immediately.

Ben

P.s.:
for some more information go here:

http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/misc/misc.html#fun



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Hi Folks, I was on a two days vacation and came back just an hour ago. I was strongly surprised about the amount of posts concerning the April fools joke. Now it has to be said: of course it was an April fools joke and I fear for my life now, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains) !! 

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